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Remarks about IBMs OS/2 are very true, but there was one more aspect: Win 3.1 was coming on 2 floppy discs, OS/2 was coming on 10 or more, can't remember exactl
by piokoch 6y ago
Remarks about IBMs OS/2 are very true, but there was one more aspect: Win 3.1 was coming on 2 floppy discs, OS/2 was coming on 10 or more, can't remember exactly, but this was something huge, bigger than anything else at that time. But, indeed, technically that was a great achievement.
- wazoox 6y agoMS-DOS up to 4.1 was coming on 2 floppies, but Windows 3.1 came on a whole bunch of them (probably no less that 10). Windows 95 ans OS/2 came on a enormous stack of floppies, more than 20. I did this install more then once back then.
- aduitsis 6y agoI had installed Windows 3.0 on the 20Mb HDD of my Hyundai 16v (8088, 10MHz!) via 20 360Kbyte floppies :) (edit, yes Windows 3.0 could use CGA 640x200 with 1 bit colour)
- stordoff 6y agoOffice was just as bad - 97 Professional came on _55_[1]. I remember having to install a version that came on 33 (one of which didn't work, but if you told the installer to ignore it, the final install still worked - I assume some component I didn't use would fail), and that was a "fun" way to spend an afternoon. [1] "Microsoft Office 97 Professional edition is provided on a total of 55 diskettes" https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/tn-archive/cc767941(v=technet.10) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/tn-archiv...
- Firehawke 6y agoWindows 3.1 was on 7 disks, with the last disk being printer drivers. This is a beta version, but still should demonstrate nicely: https://ia801800.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/30/items/microsoft-windows-3.1-.-7z/Microsoft%20Windows%203.1%20.7z https://ia801800.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/30...